Design Thinking Alternatives for Anthropologically and Ecologically Diverse Landscapes
Building upon the landscape ecology movement heterogeneous futures is at the nexus of anthropological and ecological biodiversity as a means for creating a more resilient public realm.
Image by Iryna Dronova, Visual Aesthetics in Environmental Heterogeneity
My work exposes the interconnected relationship between difference in the ecology of the environment, and the social, cultural and linguistic spatial mechanisms, in order to imagine and create public spaces that embrace a palimpsest of histories and spatial constructs that embrace heterogeneity as a landscape process.
Before we dive into my research, I first want to define heterogeneity - it is a term that is often used to describe the resilience of ecological systems. In short it defines diversity as an essential characteristic of resilience within a system.
My initial inquiry was to study selected quantitative and qualitative data around public space. In search of bringing the ecological and anthropological systems together to realize a more just and resilient world.
It’s fascinating to zoom out as well in order to understand our place in this universe. Planet Earth is a direct product of change and difference, heterogeneity is the one characteristic that defines life’s ability to thrive in on earth.
Lived experiences matter in the shaping of land and creation of open spaces
It is those people, those lived experiences, that have shaped the vast majority of the land on this planet. The many vibrant open spaces we move are not designed by “Landscape Architects”